Rails is still a ghetto. Out of most programmers, Rails is the one with people with the least amount of CS degrees.
While there might be great rail programmers who know there CS basics. A lot don't
While there might be great rail programmers who know there CS basics. A lot don't
In my experience I find that nearly all practicing programmers simply don't know a lot of important basics about building software or even how a computer works.
Or much worse: have heard, can answer questions about them, and still can't code themselves out of a paper bag.
Rails is a niche that has a low barrier to entry. I doubt you can write an article that says: High frequency trading is a ghetto.
Fair disclosure: I'm an engineer (I was trained to build computers instead of programming them). I've been programming professionally since 1987 and, among the top programmers I've met since then, two biologists, one engineer, one physicist, one ichthyologist and several ones who never graduated college, figure prominently.